Improvement in awl-handles



L. H. PAGE & S CHRO EDER. AWL-HANDLES.

No. 171,739. Patented Jan.4,1876.

3044/2. JJ/ZZZW UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEVI H. PAGE AND CHRISTIAN F. SOHROEDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS; SAID PAGEASSIGNOR TO BERTHA CAMPBELL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN AWL-HANDLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 171,739, dated January4, 1876 applicationfiled November 10, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, LEVI H. PAGE and CHRISTIAN F. SCHROEDER, both ofChicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented acertain Improvement in Awl- Handles, of which the following is aspecification:

This invention relates to that class of awlhandles which are composed ofa split clamp contracted around the shank of the awl by a nut, and ahand piece formed. of disks of leather secured upon the shank or tang ofthe split clamp. The leather disks are dressed after they are placed onthe tang of the clamp, and as it is practically impossible to finish thehandle so that all the leather disks are exactly concentric with thetang, the surface of the handle thus made is apt to become uneven andrough by the turning of one or more of the disks on the tang.

Our improvement, intended to provide against this difficulty bypreventing the turnin g of the disks of leather after they have beenonce properly secured, consists in making the tang screw-threaded, andto screw the several leather disks upon it, so that they will lock oneanother.

Figure l is an axial section of our improved awl-handle. Fig. 2 is anend view of the same.

Fig. 3 is a transverse section.

The same letters of reference are used in all the figures in thedesignation of identical parts.

The split clamp A is made tapering, as usual, and contracted by atapering nut, B. At the junction of the clamp and its tang G is acollar, 0, to sustain the washer b, against which the lowest of theleather disks D of the handle is seated. The tang U is screw-threaded,and the several leather disks are successively screwed upon it, andbrought into intimate contact with one another. They will thus becomelooked, as it were, on the tang, and the ordinary twisting strain uponthem, though causing them to yield in a body, cannot turn themseparately on the shank or tang.

The leather disks are properly trimmed, so as to give a smooth surfaceto the handle, after they have been secured on the tang in the mannerstated.

Any form of head E may be provided for the handle. The leather diskscomposing the head are screwed together, as shown, and the head thusmade screwed upon the projecting end of the tang.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

An awl-handle, composed of leather disks D, which arescrewed upon thescrew-threaded tang G of the clamp A, substantially in the manner andfor the purpose specified.

LEVI H, PAGE. CHRISTIAN F. SOHROEDER. Witnesses:

'WILLM. Goon, FREDERICK SAOKETT.

